ILX Wire Covers Compilation 2010

sweet! I hope it was this dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLwiYpSTFE

haha unfortunately not

Everyone should pick their top 9 tracks and SB the remaining people, in the spirit of the comp.

haw

Lets talk about another one!

another one what?

Same idea, different band?

would we want to do another covers album, or another "pre-covers" set like the fake U2 album?

no rest for the wicked eh

can't we let this one sink in for a week or two?

Well, I'd be interested in either, the second option requires waiting for something suitable to come along, what was all this Viking stuff mentioned upthread?

For me, part of the genius in the U2 idea was that it was poking fun at a behemoth.

also i am STRONGLY in favour of precovers for the next one - should alternate covers w/ original compositions

ohhh there are some behemoths asking for this

i wish fleetwood mac had an upcoming album to ape

can't we just bask in this one for a little while

xxxxp

Nah we should be busting these out like K-Tel or Pickwick :)

maresnest you are salieri and i claim my £5

Or hey we could choose a Top Of The Pops 70's album and cover that, have LJ on the front with a sheer body stocking.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Top_of_the_Pops_79_album.JPG

photoshop here I come

nice selection of tunes on that one

let's just cover that. I call "ring my bell".

really hope Video Killed and The Radio Star are covered separately. dibs on Video Killed

Or how about all of us covering Oh Superman?

or is it O Superman

oh man, how to choose??? heart of glass. it has to be.

xpost haha i would be up for that

Bagsy Cliff then.

Pity it's not Wired For Sound tho', his excursion into math-rock

hang on that would be a straight covers project, rather than a reimagining of title

hmm

i vote 'bask in this one for a bit'

I vote boo!

as a preemptive measure, dibs on "when ur in love w/ a beautiful woman"

I am seconds away from starting a new thread.

cosign for the basking, but when it comes time to do another one,

seeing as how there were some extremely interesting interpretations of a band that already had quite a varied sound,

for the next one I would like to hear how ILX tackles

The Ramones

srsly give it a while, barely anyone on ilm's heard this yet!

Okay, back to DEFCON 4 :)

Or hey we could choose a Top Of The Pops 70's album and cover that, have LJ on the front with a sheer body stocking.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Top_of_the_Pops_79_album.JPG

― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Friday, May 7, 2010 8:23 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yesssssssssssss

yes pls

This one made my morning extremely entertaining -- thank you all and congratulations.

I look forward to not flaking on whatever the next one is.

Bump

This thing is quality. Awesome work everyone!

I'm thrilled my poll inspired this amazing effort!! Just listening to this now - unbelievable. I had no idea ILX was so talented!

Has anyone emailed Colin et al?

Ned has mentioned it upthread, I don't think anyone has yet. Would he be interested I wonder.. (Colin not Ned)

they seem to have a sense of humor about reflection and emulation. after all, these are the guys who brought a band that covered their own early material to open for them on a tour.

latebloomer's track just became my 80,000th play on last.fm

Goddamn, this version of "Boiling Boy", especially with the female vocals. Slaaaaaaaaays me...

Some of the reinterpretations are damn cool as well, nice to "hear" Ned on "Ambitious" and "Heartbeat" is stretched out wonderfully.

I finally got round to listening to the whole thing tonight, good work people! Wish I'd mixed my "kick drum" (actually the first blip from "Geiger Counter" by Kraftwerk) up a bit, but hey.

if we do another one i promise to not forget to send the file before i go on holiday so i can have something better quality than thrashing a £10 guitar into a the netbook internal mic with an out of sync freeware multitracker.

i really liked 12XU, also the singing on Mannequin was super!

and outdoor miower

ken, I actually liked yours a lot!

aw ty sean! there were so many more things i wanted to do with it but time/equipment/guitar playing abilities didn't allow - next time though.

It was a good way to start the proceedings...